The /lit/ Diaries

I did but cbf

>>9743148
But what did you usually put in it?

I keep a diary and write in it every day.

> If so what kind of stuff do you generally write in them?

I prefer to write my thoughts rather than my day-to-day activities, as I feel it won't really matter to my old-self if I went food shopping or went to uni on that particular day. That being said, I do record memorable stuff that happens to me. My longest passages are written when I'm on holiday.

It's one of those things where you have to keep writing in them to make it worthwhile.

>>9743160
muh dick

>>9743127
I've heard it's cathartic and increases your productivity. Seems like a good idea.

>>9743127
I started keeping a diary (desu) just to regain handwriting skills after only using a keyboard for about five years; each time I put a brief account of what happened that day, along with plans/hopes for the near future. Nothing too fancy.

Re-reading the stuff you wrote a while ago is too embarrassing desu.

>>9743127
I want to start keeping a journal but I have no idea what to put in it. I feel like recording my day to day life is kind of pointless and I struggle with putting my thoughts to paper because I'm too much of a perfectionist. What's the point of a keeping a diary if you're going to peer edit it, right? It's just sitting on my desk next to my bookshelf mocking me.

I was thinking maybe I could fill it with daily observances while out and about - I've done this before while doing sociological field research in college - but I feel like a weirdo keeping something so big on my person at all times just to whip it out in a crowded place and start jotting down notes.

When I have interesting dreams I either write what I remember as notes in my smartphone, or draw the more visual bits in a sketchbook with explanatory notes. Here's a couple of the latest:

A fight on a narrow strip of desert rock,a precipitous drop to either side. A black silken bag holds a number of shoebox sized rectangles make of black glossy stone with a red gem set in the middle of the top. Pressing it makes it unfold into a buglike anthropoid 2 feet high and dangerous.

The Old Dog

A dream where I was listing the persona dramatica of a Jeremey Prickles storyline. After starting a new page,the first entry being of a minor female confidant who "works at the Temple " and relates the feelings and opinions of the locals about the Deity involved ,when I considered what that deity should be,and began drawing. It was a dog anthromorph,old yet stout,with a head of long flowing white hair. He had a monklike appearance, dressed in a robe with a hood,carrying a staff of plain wood,with a squinting smiling face,knowing kind and slightly cynical. I imagined him passing among his followers incognito in this form,and I called him the Old Dog,and knew Jeremey would be the one to teach him New Tricks.